Gun deaths

While one unnecessary and violent death is one too many, we must question the insanity we buy into with regard to terrorism on our soil. Unbelievable sums of money are spent on anti-terrorist and homeland security activities. Are we getting our money's worth? Would the deaths by terrorism be fewer with less such spending?

We get whipped into a frenzy over these relatively small numbers of terrorist deaths through foreign influences, while the numbers of American citizens who kill one another or who commit suicide with guns reaches into the tens of thousands. In businesses, places of entertainment and homes these killings and woundings are little different in outcome from terrorist attacks.

Is it acceptable that we kill one another in numbers which are multiples of those that terrorists kill us? So when Jeff Sessions claims that withholding funds from sanctuary cities makes our country safer, has he forgotten about lax gun control laws? Does he think the elimination of terrorism will make our cities safer? Must knee-jerk responses to security push compassion aside?

And, of course, there's always money. As long as the NRA is stuffing money in the pockets of Congressmen, the overwhelming public desire for sensible gun control will be ignored.